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vwrry ftf L^ptf"^ THE JOURNAL LUCIAN SWIFT, MANAGER. BTnBSORlPTZOK EATM BT KAO. On* month ??? Thro* months ., .k Saturday EY. edition, 20 to 28 pags. The Minneapolis Journal from January 1st to June 1st, 1903, carried 73 per cent more advertising than the daily Tribune. The Minneapolis Journal from January 1st to June ist, 1903, carried 74 per cent more want advertising than the daily Tribune. The Minneapolis Journal from January 1st to June 1st, 1903, carried 9 per cent more advertising than the Sunday and Daily Tribune combined. The Minneapolis Journal out of 6,030 residences can vassed, had 4,905 subscribersthe Evening Tribune 1,246the Morning Tribune 769. The Minneapolis Journal in 81- apartment and flat build ings canvassed, had 1,250 subscribersthe Evening Tribune 185, and the Morning Tribune 178. f Organization Promises Peace. A very interesting step in the evolution of the relations of capital is now being taken by the employers. No one who has read the papers can have failed to notice the tendency of employers to form asso ciations which are nothing more than em ployers' unions. These associations are genuine organizations or federations of the proprietors of separate enterprises. They have nothing in common with truarts. They are no more trusts than labor unions are socialistic groups. They are nothing but associations of independent employers for mutual protection or benefit. The process of evolution has gone so far in giving labor its due that it la no longer the employe but the employer who is on the defensive. When labor unions were first formed pirbllo opinion and the law were on the side of the employer. The employe in the mass was not worth giving thought to. Fortunate men took it for granted that others, unfortunate, were doomed to pass their lives in unrequited toll. The laborer had the misfortune to be born into the world in a hard luck oastethat was all. Then the laboring man began to organize for mutual benefit, for protection and for aggression. Later on many of the large employers came together and formed trustsorganizations which threatened to monopolize the opportunity for employ ment as well as products. This concen tration of capital caused a further con centration of labor. The great trusts found themselves confronted by a national organization of labor. But this complete organization of skilled workmen bore so heavily on employers that were not in trusts and had no idea of entering them, that they were compelled to form unions to protect themselves and contend for their rights, and that is the movement that is going on today. This time the employer, no longer the favorite of pub lic opinion, no longer master of the situ ation, but struggling to hold certain posi tions, finds himself confronted with a maze of organizations, compaot and as well-disciplined as the Macedonian phalanx, flushed with success and ac claimed by the public. The members of the labor unions and the members of the employers' unions are often disposed to regard each other as the very incarnation of greed and ruthless arbitrariness. Each thinks that the wel fare of society demands the destruction of the other. But the outsider sees in the confrontation of organization with organi sation the beginning of a more peaceful era in the industrial world. The more powerful nations have become, the fewer the wars. On the continent of Europe the maintenance of great armies is little more than insurance against war. The premiums are high, but better pay them than suffer the destruction of war. The British navy is the island-centered world-empire's insurance policy against destruction and against danger of de struction. A powerful American navy in sures continued peace for us. So it is with industrial relations. When strength confronts strength prudence appears. If the Transvaal had had the army of France there would have been no Boer warprob ably there would have been none if the British had realized in advance what a really formidable adversary they had aroused. When organized and united capital opposes organized and united labor, each side, nervous over the possible struggle and fearful of the outcome, will welcome peace negotiations. So indus trial organizations mean industrial peace. Charles A. Towne was the Tammany Fourth of July orator, and he descanted at length upon the dangers of imperialism. There may be some dangers in what Mr. Towne calls imperialism, but there are many more In the democracy of the Tam many kind. Place for the Quarantine Hospital. The indictment of the city health com missioner has reminded the public that the municipal quarantine hospital is un der his management instead of being a part of the city hospital establishment. This seems to be a rather illogical ar rangement. The question may well bo asked: Should the care and responsibilities of the quarantine hospital rest upon the sanitary officials? It would seem that they should not. It is a sanitarian's duty to tell where a danger exists and when'it has ceased to exist, but it is no more his duty to assume the responsibility in the medical care and nursing of smallpox cases than of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or measles. The city has a hospital and is provided with all the necessities for its decent care and management. It has its contagious ward for tuberculosis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, tc. It' should have a place for the care of smallpox patients also, or to put It in other words, it should have the burden of responsibility and care of the small pox hospital. The city hospital has its taft of physicians and nurses. Certain Of the** should be delegated to care for V-^-K. i HOSDAY EVENIHft THB JOURNAL la ouMHSW eyerr *nthf.ttr except Sander, at eT-49 Fourth Street South, Journal Buil"Iding, d Minneapolis. Minn. (NewXork Office, Mgr. General Adg J Tribune Building. M. LEE STARKE, ) Chicago Office, - I- .'.,.'. J. S. McLAIN, EDITOR. :v* .' Tribune Building. W. w ! JHRMiWli, Representative. i Washington Office. i 46 Poet Building. 1.0 0 1.60 Delivered by Oarrler. AN INVITATION la extended to all to rlslt the Freaa Room, which Is the finest in the west. The battery ol presaea consists of three tour-deck GOBS Pressea, with a total capacity of 144.000 eight-page Journals an hour, printed, folded and counted. The best time to call is from 8 16 to 4:80 p. m. Inquire at the buiiness office and be directed to the visitors' gallery, ot the Press Room. 8 cente juoam " "" ""* cents All pitpew ire'continued nntll an-explicit order la reoelred for dUcontinuance, and until U ar rearagee are paid. One week One month smallpox patients when necessary. A sanitarian's. responsibility in dealing with smallpox cases consists in satisfying himself as to the existence of the dis ease, safeguarding the public by establishing quarantine, and safeguard ing the case by turning it over to the proper authorities for medical care and nursing, and regulating the release of quarantine when the case has recov ered. Such now is a sanitarian's respon sibility in dealing with scarlet fever and diphtheria. The old idea that smallpox is a dis ease to be handled differently from other diseases and in a pesthouse should be a thing of the past The term "pesthouse" belongs to past ages and should neverj used. The term itself is enough to cause a feeling of dread both in the patient and his friends. People ill with infectious diseases are compelled by law, for the safety of the public, to go into isolation. Patients with ordinary ills are at liberty to choose whether or not they will go to a hospital. Those hospitals provided for patients compelled to go to them should be as good., or even better, than the ordinary hospital. The smallpox hos pital should simply be an adjunct to the city hospital. The condition of riot and anarchy pre vailing in Evansvill, Ind., last night and this morning is one more sign of the di rection in which the mob spirit is leading us. As has been pointed out time and again, the times are ripe for ruthless sup pression of mobs. The Cuban government has been slow about it, but the naval stations pledged in the Piatt amendment have been trans ferred to the United States, and it is agreed that Cuba shall control the Isle of Pines, which is a very good arrange ment, as we do not want it. It is not at all necessary for defensive or offensive purposes by our government. President Palma has ended the first year of his administration with great credit to himself, for he was placed in a very trying position last year. He had to face some discontent, unreasonable de mands for pay by the Cuban veterans for services rendered a slender treasury to meet the necessities of the new govern ment. He has shown a fine moderation and a real ability to conciliate domestic antagonisms. The situation was all the more trying because the government of the United States, the "Liberator," from whom much helpfulness in starting the new republic on Its career, was expected, was unable to offer a reduced tariff rate on Cuban Bugar, because of the narrow views of some of our statesmen on the subject of protection, and when, at length, they reluctantly consented to a small re duction for five years, even that arrange ment was left unconfirmed until our con gress meets in extra session late in the autumn. The predictions of disorder and lapse into the old conditions have all failed. The sanitary measures introduced by our government have been enforced and the yellow fever has not reappeared in epi demic form. The educational interests have been sedulously guarded, and 3,400 teachers are employed, 150,000 pupils are enrolled and 120,000 are in dally attend ance. The finances have been well man aged and it appears certain that the $35,- 000,000 loan authorized by the Cuban con gress, of which $27,000,000 are to be used to pay the army, the veterans, chiefly, will be easily met, provided liberal reci procity with this country is secured. Dur ing the first year of the Cuban republic the exepndltures have been kept well within the revenues and the balance sheet showed $2,700,000 to the credit of the gov ernment. With Evansville, Ind., hunting the negro population and with the memory of the negro hunt at Joplin with us, it must be confessed that the United States is hardly the proper power to remonstrate with Russia on the Klshinef massacre, or even to be the agency thru which a remon strance is transmitted. Disestablishment in France. The French law against religious asso ciations and its rigid enforcement, have doubtless caused both the enemies and friends of the Roman Catholic church to look forward to a separation of the church and state in France. The .laics, .witness ing the success with which so-radical a measure as that against the associations has been enforced, no longer consider that disestablishment presents insuperable dif ficulties. The clerics, irritated by con tinual governmental interference with its own church, ^re beginning to to oonsider disestablishment as a good thing for the church. From the American point of view there is no question that separation of church and state in France .,wx%u)d! be. good for. the republic, good for the church and good for- religion ^ We - are .convincedwe Americansthat a blending of religion and politics Is bound to be bad, no mat- THE MINNEAPOLIS JOUENAE good^the constituent elements. " M. Yves Guyot, a noted French pub licist, has proposes a method of dises tablishment which -he thinks presents a minimum of difficulties. It is really what we would call in this country the local option plan. M. Guyot would not with draw from the church public aid, but he would have it extended thru local gov erning bodies instead of the nattonaUgov ernment. The latter would provide each local division with the amount of money now paid over to the church to meet its expenses in that particular district, but the local governing body would be free to decide whether to give the money, to the church or use it in some other way. This seems to be a plan that would en able the century-old arrangement of the concordat to be essentially changed with out a jar. Wherever the people belong in a majority to the church and believe in government aid for church work, they could provide It wherever they are other wise minded, they could spend the money to what would seem to them a better purpose. ''-''-' It is notable that Governor Taft of the Philippines made the first east-bound message on the new American Pacific cable an appeal for a reduction of the tariff on Philippine products. Justice demands such a reduction, and the next session of congress ought to see it granted. The Coming Conclave. It would appear from the situation in the Vatican, at this writing, that the. pe riod of conflicting reports as to the physi cal condition of the supreme pontiff is past and that it may not be long before the Cardinal Camerlengo Oreglia will en ter the death chamber, artd, with the little silver hammer, verify the transla tion of the pontiff by striking his head three times with it, and then making the formal announcement to the public and the ambassadors of the powers who hold diplomatic relations with the Vatican that the pontifical throne is vacant and a con plave is in order. Oreglia, as Camerlengo, will take charge of the Vatican until the cardinals have in conclave elected a successor to Leo XIII., and the announcement is made, in the ancient form from the balcony of St. Peter's, of the name of the favored can didate by the senior deacon of the Sacred college. There have been occasions, when the cardinals were five months in con clave before they reached a decisive vote. Leo XIII. was elected on the third scru tiny or ballot and thru the votes of the foreign cardinals reinforcing the Italians who favored him. His predecessor, Pius IX.,was elected as the successor of Gregory XVI. within two days. As Cardinal Joachim Pecci, Leo was not persona grata with Plus IX., but a few months before Pius' death Pecci was appointed to the high office of Camerlengo and his election to the pontificate was due to his exalted virtues and executive ability, which outweighed objections to him on the score of liberal tendencies,.as against the pronounced medievalism of Plus, who, from rather emphatic liberal views at the beginning of his reign,. which stim ulated the revolutionary spirit: in. the states of the 'ciiu|i3b. an incident of which be Cuba's Good Record. was his fiight''td'''G'aieta,tiapsed ter denunciator of inodern progress, When Leo XIII. was elected, there was a noticeable. absence of interference with the election by the representatives of the foreign powers, who usually spend much time before and during the conclave in triguing and in various ways seeking to influence the choice of the cardinals!. be willing tSIRtXro.OffOr, an increase^ oT^.WO.OOO over the preceding year's, flgures.^Truly here is a .trad well worth the careful attention of our statesmen. It is npwfa trade of splendid proportions,ybut the^fact to be iborne constantly in^mind is' that if it does not soon improve even more rapidlly it will begin to decrease. In other words, if we do'not soon take steps to improve trade relations with Canada, the Ca nadians will take steps to make them worse. \"J p'Sp: vt '!.- ^to.'iL: 'Dl't-candidate^'Me^lxim- Roman Catholic powers formerly assumed that they had' the right to \-eto in papal elections, but the only power which has such right of 'veto is Portugal, and it was granted by a. special papal bill/ and she has. never exercised it,. The other powers have often signified that the elec tion of such or such cardinal would be ob jectionable to them/but a veto on a con summated election has never been exer cised. Leo XIII. has, held strenuously to the doctrine of non-interference by.the secular powers in the conclave and has labored to make conclaves immune from tampering and pressure from without. When he entered upon his reign, he pro posed to the cardinals that they should become a consultative body, as was. inten ded, but he offended them, as they had fallen in with the reactionary views of Pius IX., and his. liberal tendencies in other ways were checked by opposition of the cardinals. Nevertheless Leo has ef fected many needed administrative re forms. It is not to be expected that the com ing conclave will elect a pope who will hold any other relation with the Italian government than that maintained by Pius IX. and Leo XIII., who regard the reign ing house of Savoy-Carlgnan as having deprived the pontiff of what he consid ers is held by the most sacred and inde feasible of tenures, altho the Italian na tion demanded the absorption of the states of the church by the Italian mon archy, in order to make Rome the capi tal of United Italyi The papacy is com mitted irrevocably to the "no surrender" doctrine as to the (retention of the tem poral power, altho It is gone apparently forever, and no compromise seems pos sible. The great Italian statesman, Min ghetti, declared that the hostility to the church and the present irreliglon in Italy is due to the opposition of thecnurch to the political unification which is more dear to the Italian nation than anything else, and that opposition of the church ceasing/Italy would become reconciled to the church. There is . no doubt of the truth of this statement. Had Leo, with his deep per ception of the need for the church to keep abreast the\lmes, yielded In this respect to the time-spirit, he would have done a service for his church which would have made him one of the most distinguished in pontifical line. There is "The bureau of statistics of the new de partment of commerce estimates that the exports, from the United States to Canada for the past fiscal year will foot up $125,- 000,000, as compared with $112,000,000 last year..,. Last year's growth in this trade was, greater than in any other preceding jyetti*, and greater than that of the ex ports to any other country except Ger many, which was $21,000,000. The total Import* from Canada, for 1903 were about J attendance.1 i HMMsi ^ma i i "Wheft-such men as Attorney General. Douglasand State Treasurer Julius Block are men,tioried as possible candidatesript governor, tfe are willing rto hod our assent. But he&h'er of them is lik^y.to become an active candidate. Mr/D'abgias would like a place on the supremo bench, and Mr. Block wants to succeed himself in his pres ent position. They have both proven them selves good public servants who-'are en titled to have their ambi^ons gratified." :The The" Hills Crescent i?ayi: "'- " /'- ' "Among.the names tnUt:'have recently been mentioned as 'possible candidates for governor next year is that o J. F. Jacob son of Madison. While Mr. -Jacbbson does not have the good will of a certain ring of twin city politicians, yet there is no'/gain-^ sayingrthat "Jake" would mak a fearless official and the trust and merger expon ents could expect no additional favors with the change from "Van Sant to Jacobson. With Roosevelt and Jacobson heading the national and state tickets in 1304, it would cut little figure what the: republican plat form said about trusts and mergers. Lieu tenant Governor Ray Jones is also men tioned as a possible candidate for gov ernor." RISE OF MACNAMAftA, M..P, - . London Tit-Bits. Dr. Macnamara, =M. P., who is one of the strongest opponents of the London ed ucation bill, is a man who has come to the front entirely by his own efforts. A,t one time he was a board school teacher, and without influence of any sort he rose to be president of the National Union of Teach ers. By profession he is a journalist and editor of the* Schoolmaster. "There Is scarcely a point in connection with teach ing upon Which he cannot enligihten you, and he .could probably tell almost offhand the average'number of attendances of pu pils at any school you chose to name. Next to educataion he likes, fishing. t no doubt that Leo has more than once sacrificed his own convictions to the interfering and reactionary policies of others. His action as to Father Curd's "New Italy and' the Intransigents" is an example of this weakness. THE CAUSE OF DEATH New York Medical Journal. - The following excerpts, quoted - by the Boston Medical-. and Surgical Journal for Jan. 16, is almost goodYenough to be the finding of a "crowner's:quest."- Speaking of the death tif a distiagmished member of the medical profession, a certain medical journal says:. "Dr. *rf '8 death,' how ever, was doubtless inevitable, as he en joyed all the advantages of skilled medical Books and Authors TROUBLESOME DETAILS Mr. W. S. Dunbar, in discussing "The Mania for Detail in Fiction," in The Read er, makes some very proper complaints about. the wearying attention many authors give to detail in their novels. He thinks details when, used should be "an incen tive, a positive force, in aiding the mind to take those desired flights outside the text," and he shows that detail "improp erly used may wreck a story." It can In deed. One of the abominations of the mania for detail is to. follow a chapter or two at the commencement of a novel, disclosing a family scene and Introducing many characters as if the reader had been acquainted with them all his life, with a couple of-long chapters giving de tails of the previous lives of each of the people introduced from the cradle and babyhood to the present, and all about his ancestors from 'way back. It is also an abomination for an author to "exploit his imagination, in descriptive details, of earth and sea, mountains and hills and vales, thru page after page, or de tail a conversation thru twenty pages when the climax is reached in Ave, the rest being mere verbal dandling. The short story, to be a success, must present details only in lightning flashesan in stantaneous disclosureleaving the im agination to recall the vision's sudden revelations as it will. The same rule could be very advantageously followed by the writers of novels. - ., '. The public is apt to think of labor unions only as organizations of men to carry their points in dispute with em ployers by main force or its equivalent. It will be something of aTsurprise to many to learn that of the $26,000,000 annually paid into the treasuries of bodies affili ated with the American Federation of Labor, .'only about $2,000,000 .Is spent on strikes. The rest, Mr. Gompers says, is spent in sick, death and Unemployed bene fits, in-tool Insurance, and so on. . And now a society has' been organized to preserve the wild flower?. The great inter est which the last few, years have devel oped in nature study has been the means of threatening many species of wild flow ers with extermination, so numerous and indefatigable are the searchers ater spec imens and the lovers of floral decorations. The new society is teaching that a wild flower is better left to its life and its out door home than to be condemned to wilt in a bouquet. ..--.,, ..* Saturday's Journal contained an account of a highly successful farmers' co-operative elevator company at Mllbank, S. D. In view of the great success! -all well-managed farmers' enterprises of this sort have, it is rather surprising that there are not more of them. It is sur prising, too, that the northwest has not yet produced a single farmers' co-opera tive terminal elevator. In Denver yesterday a business man died from overwork. He was 73 years old, but there is no intimation in the dis patch announcing his death that he died of old age. The pope, who. is 93 years old, is also reported tp be. dying from over work. Time was when old age and over work Were not thought"^o be coincident possibilities. .- - j?. 1 f| MINNESOTAPCjETICS , Ezra Valentine modify disclaims any intention of getting into, the game as a candidate for railroad and warehouse com missioner.' When seen by the Brecken rldge Telegram, he said: that he did not intend to become a candidate, and would not accept a nomination unless it should come to him unsought. Jus considerable use is1 thMKHVal, e same bemifmadet of - entine's name, and prominent ninth dis trict men who supported him for con gress are declaring -that he will be a can didate before the convention*- . The New Prague Times recognizes no quarrel between Dunn and Heatwole, and nominates them both for promotion in the following: ' "While all the papers of the state are making predictions and naming candidates for gay^|nqr:, we wittMaka bur'-place with the rest%riaj place 'jpP nb^ihation for the cbnsiderai^nt..6f''th'eil"-'p^Qm^.?ih'e names of two popular. r^publieariS/ ^We know that this'article win. J^ Altho we have no, informalJion^^p^eithe^yjf? these ^Sei^L^tWpsr^tk in stating, that ba^jiiP: lojrafcxepublit^hs ^tfd haye been mw^u^ pt(i^rai|nd heed no introduction Sfthe^bpzeii's.iOj^he state. They are R: THE SONG OF THE CARDINAL. A Lote Story. By Gene Stratton-Porter. Illustrated. Indian apolis: The Bobbs-Merrlll company. This is not "a story of a cardinal, red k^tte^Jihd clpthedwltb the ecomiastical rbbeso huiti&n?defigri arid manufacture. I is ai| abOu# the bird whoae%right-red clothing-makes him look like a rushing bit of flame among the green leaves when he flies along with his ringing song*: '.'Good Cheer! Good Cheer! Good Cheer!" and "Wheat! Wheat! Wheat!" "Here! Here! .Here!" The author has a gift for telling bird, stories and if she does draw upon her : imagination for some details, she must be forgiven, for she makes bird- life details very charming reading, and one can with, truthfulness join the tribute: "O, bird, of wonderful: plumage and human-like song! What a precious thought^pf Divinity to create such beauty and music, for'" our pleasure,! Brave song ster of the'flaming coat, too proud to hide, your flashing beauty, too fearless to be cautious - of the many . dangers . that be set you, from.the top of the morning we greet youl and hail you King of Bird land, at your imperious command, 'See -here! See here!" . The volume is. very beautifully illus trated, the photos being camera studies from life,' by the author. : C.':Iuh for governor and Joel p., Heat^le'fo'r United States sena tor, to.succeecrjMoses E. Cffapp." '" "* Charles B. Cheney. LONGE8T ENGAGEMENT ON RECORD Chicago. Journal. The longest engagement on record is seventy-five years, and it took place in Bohemia, where engagements of fifteen and even twenty years are so common as to cause no remark. The names of the wooer, and "wooed were respectively Franz Rosner and Anna Renner, and they had been courting con tinually for seventy-five years, but had repeatedly deferred the bridal day. . At last Franz became fatally ill and was married on his death.bed on the: eve of his one hundredth birthday, the. age of the bride and widow being 99. In Russia long engagements are not relished by betrothed young men, altho the ladies usually are not at all-averse to them. Indeed, these latter not infre quently use all sorts of-artifices in order to stave off the wedding day to as distant a date as possible. Perhaps the custom that decrees that the Russian bridegroom-elect must send his sweetheart a present every day, no matter whether the engagement last for ten weeks or ten years, may have some thing to do with this anomalous state of affairs. The regularly recognized length of a Siamese engagement is exactly one month For the bride to ask for an extension be yond that limit is held to savor of repre hensible prudery. Moreover in Siam, old maids are unknown, as all girls inarry. LITERARY NOTES . Sam Clover, well-known to newspaper men In the twin cities, has written an other book entitled "On Special As signment," a newspaper story, in which Paul Travers, the hero of his first book, again figures. The Lothrop Publishing company are the publishers. The Lothrop Publishing company, Bos ton, announce "Ethel In Fairyland," a story for young readers, illustrated by Hermann Heyer. Rev. Harold B. Wright of Pittsburg Kan., author of "That Printer of Udell's " is writing a new book, the scene of which will be located in the Ozark moun tains. His former book has been re markably successful. McClure, Phillips & Co. will publish in the autumn "Falk and. Two Other Nov elettes," by Joseph Conrad. Arthur Stanwood Price, author of "The Triumph," was by his father destined to be a lawyer, but while in Harvard,- he determined that he had another destina tion and is now "getting on" in litera ture. E. P. Dutt6h & Co. have added two volumes to their excellent Popular Library of Art, one on Leonardo de Vin ci, and the other on the French impres sionist school, containing biographies of Manet, Degas, Renoir, Claude Monet and others from 1860 to 1900, with many illus trations from the works of each. L. C. Page & Co., Boston, have recently Issued the first volume of fiction written w.}k? authorn "The Kindred ofd the Wild, Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts. This looo E&rt * B Te K^tt Publishe a full page por- trait of Dr Charles A. Eastman, former ly of the Sioux nation, who had the fe licity of winning the hand of the fascinat ing Miss Elaine Goodale, who, with her sister,a Dora, formerly wrote and printed many poems of merit, It was a love match, andth couple have been supreme ly happy since their union. Dr. Eastman is an author himself. -t^stman USES OF SHARK FINS Ohio Valley Manufacturer. In some countries walking sticks are manufactured from shark fins. From the skin of the animal is obtained a leather suitable for making sword grips and many fancy articles. Sharks abound on the coast of Nicaragua, and Mr. Gottschalk, the United fcTtates consul at San Juan del Norte, suggests that the fins, backbones and skins might with advantage be im ported into the United States for indus trial purposes. The killing of sharks is encouraged by the Nicaraguan fishery laws, and there appears to be no export duty on' any industrial product derived from them W E NONPAREIL MAN Casually Observed. The Fairmont Sentinel says that "The Nonpareil Man in popularity is a good second to the News and Comment girl of the Duluth News Tribune " Noticing the quick and sharp game she plays, we have often wished that we might hold the News and Comment Girl's hand. Many of us old hayseeds spent the Fourth in the corn patch on our upper 80. The Ada Herald is "agin" Colonel R. F. Jones' horse pond show. It notes that it did not get a complimentary ticket to the aquarium and adds: ''No! The horse show is too swell' an affair for us country galootsand Is got ten up mostly to make a display ot the finery which the pups of society happen to have on hand. That is certainly, unkind. Any horse from Ada would have been welcomed at the showespecially if he had been web footed. This talk of chloroforming Senator Beverldge and thrusting the vice presi dency upon him is inhuman. ' Thomas Jefferson was all right but his old Fourth comes a little too near.being a disturbance of the peace. ' A glance at the Woman's Page in many of the exchanges shows that eithor a syn dicated question is answered in many sheets or else a large number of ladles are-, suffering from red noses. Every writer agrees in answering that a bad diet and tight corsets are responsible and that no lady will suffer from a radish tinted headlight in the center of her face if she will reform her diet and loosen up on her waist line. While undergoing treatment it might be well to chalk the offending member. NEW BOOKS By William Bd- D. Appleton & 'TW1XX GOD AND MAMMON, wards Tirebuck. New York Co, Price $1.50. Mr. Hall Calne writes a memoir of the author who died three years ago. He rose from humble conditions and limited opportunities for culture to authorship of superior ability. In this novel we have the life of a priest of the Church of Eng land of the high church element, starting out with an exalted standard of the priestly office and zealous in pastoral work. In the course of his work he re ceived into the church a lovely, con scien tious young woman, Joy Probert, who developed extraordinary spirituality and had an exalted idea of the sacred charac ter of the priesthood. Mr. Gomer Deen fell in love with her and she declined him in a letter in which she admitted her own affection, but reminded him of his frequent avowal that his bride was the church, and she thought she ought to renounce even her heart's inclination for Christ. The girl had left London and g.one to her family in Wales. Then Miss Abercromble Moore, rich and aggressive, came upon the scene and beguiled the rector with her money. Deen, sorely troubled about Joy Probert, went to Wales to see her, and a reconciliation was effected. Ultimately Mammon con quered and Deen married Miss Moore, and after awhile Joy Probert was found kneeling in the church dead, and Deen, finding himself with a wife he. did not love, and his spiritual hopes waning, and tortured by his own infamy as a man and a priest and hypocrite, died during the solemn celebration of the Holy Eucharist. "In the golden chalice were found a deadly poison's purple stains." His own priestly hands had placed the poison there. The book is desperately sad, ex cept where the author portrays farm life In Wales. Gomer Deen struggled to re gain his lost faith, but he had cut him self off from it by surrendering to Mam mon, leaving one pure-souled woman, to whom he had proven false, to die for love of him--..-The closing chapters are pitiably tragical. . It is claimed that, barring patents, the ordinary runabout automobile ought to be built for $100. When it is, we expect to bear the horse beef. The Fairmont Sentinel makes a sturdy plea for the honest obituary, something like this: "Bill Skinner is dead. Everybody knew Bill. For years he had bummed around, working a little when his wife's health was such that she could not suppport the family^ and becoming the father of chil dren who will be of. little use to the world if there Is anything in heredity. Bill will be gladly missed by people who had to keep lying to him about being short Of change when he wanted to - borrow money." We foresee trouble for the Sentinel if it carries out this idea. There are people who do not seem to revere the truth when it is told about their relatives. It was Heraclltus (or some other heathen skate who wrote Greek that puzles ev erybody except the college professor and he has. a "hoss" on his library shelf) who said (that progress grew out of strife. If Heraclltus was right-which I doubt, be lieving as I do that, progress is in spite of strife.and in .reality grows out of love, but if Heraclltus is. right, then the Church with the capital C has promise of great progress in, the future owing to, the ap pearance, on this side, of the ocean, of a strenuous anti-ritualistic, no popery member of the Anglican communion, the Rev. Mr. Fillingham, vicar of something or other, full of zeal and of good or of bad works as you happen to feel about it. Mr. Fiilirigham, short of stature, but doughty of meln and wearing white hose, has a mission, and It is to smash, ever lastingly to smash, the idolatry of the high church'" people th.ej protestant .'episcopal fold. -' .''- ".':'of '. - . ,'.''' :,' '..... ^Idqlatry^that's ''the' ^eynbt'e/C. Ke.Vs Fillingham says" ."The, public rave^about the heathen, but they-don't seem to re*- allze that right here in New York city the worst idolatry is a common occur rence." , . f - . Mr. Fillingham, it will be seen, Is the low church Carrie . Nation. . Wherever there is a church with "popish practices," lights, candles, the elevation of the host, the wafer or things of that kind, Mr. Fil lingham has his hatchet out. He is hot choice - in his language. He sp'eaks of the sacred wafer as "a bun" and calls the sacred vestments "duds" and ''dry goods."' The vipar's strenuous program in New York city called out a letter from Bishop Potter in which the bishop doubted his credentials and called him an "interloper" or something of that kind. E 1 Iofm * as ' " "" * publishe in 1892, and which has been out of print for several years. The Reader for July publishes a late photo of Mark Twain taken for that magazine. As he grows in years Mark becomes more distinguished in appear ance. At Windsor, Vt., in the summer colony of authors, are Winston Churchill. Fred Remington, Norman Hopgood and Peter Dunne ("Mr. Dooley").s x But the Rev. Mr. Fillingham loves to stir'' up bishops. Mr. Fillingham says: "AH bishops are alike. They' have- tort- lead a quiet life, and it nearly kills them^. to be worried. My plan Is to worry them. until I get what I am after. "I mean to frighten and to worry Bishop Potter until he stamps out every semblance of ritualism in the Episcopal . church in the diocese of Greater New York." X The agitator is going back to England now but he promises to return next "Febru ary. He adds: "My plans include a western tour and the organization of local committees to aid me in my fight against the idolatrous ritualism of the so-called "high churches." I want to unite, all the Protestant de-T. nominations on this fight against th ritual." . . . , \ - Mr. Fillingham claims that "the church in New York is governed by the laws of the Church of England, because of the fact that in 1801 the church in New York~ adopted the * thirty-nine articles of the, faith of the Church of England and hence is bound by them." Whatever the argument on either side makes little difference. If people begin to get up in the services and protest against "popish practices" there are going to be some gorgeous rows. We look for a strenuous life for our rather elevated church brethren of the Anglo-American fold beginning next winter. For a summer outing there is no plac. like the grand old office, where the rattle of the typwriters and the swish of the office boy as he reaches the vanishing point are the cheerful sounds that meet , the ear at all times. In spite of the Of fice's advantage as a summer resort, once" during the season the writer makes it a practice to go out and fall into Mlnne tohka, where there is water enough, so that the city water department doesn't fine you $1 if you allow It to stand around without watching it. The other Sunday we managed to break away from the' church services and found the lake in the same old place. If you see Mlnne tonka every day, you know how it looks, and It becomes In certain sense common. If you see it once during the season, it is impressive. It sends a little thrill down your spine like the old swing in the la.e or the brass band's gorgeous show Jnote. For years I have owned a bathing suit with cloth enough in it to make a pair of overalls for a humming-bird. When not taken for a necktie by. strangers, it has caused dismay. This bathing suit, since I have "grown up," has been left at home, but always with regret. It is the easiest thing to swim in you ever saw. After dark, say about 9 p. m., Plomp!! There we go in! The stars are mirrored in the water and the little, soft waves slap against the boat. The lake is as still and as warm as milk. You cannot tell where" the water leaves off and the atmosphere begins.' You' float between deep and deep "in an open-eyed dream that the world Is done" Vith sorrow."^ ' Then^ all,the little, boys and girls inr the cottage and the next one to It have per suaded their mamas to let them take a good-night dip and they all comfi whoop ing and fluttering out on the dock, drop lng in and spattering and quarreling and laughing and jumping and swimming, and you take the boat in and play around with them for a while and get ducked and spattered and jumped on till a ma ternal outcry from the shore, shows that "time's up." Then everybody jumps in again "to wash his feet," and we all go dripping up the dock, loving everybody and every body loving us, and telling enor mous stories about the long distances we have "swimmed" under water. Say, isnt this a good old world? Th* best ever! The- very best! ^ STEANGE VOICES OF THE "AIR" Toledo Times-Bee. The Sunday Times-Bee prints one of the most Interesting letters that, perhaps, ever came before the eyes of its readers. In a word, it describes the workings of the mind of a Toledo state hospital patient as she herself analyzes them. -For the past few years the Bee was in receipt of big instalments of writing, from Mrs. S. E. W., a patient at the hospital.. Some of it was really wonderful, and only its great length precluded Its publication. However, the last instalment contained an especially interesting portion. In discussing literature Mrs. S. E. W. interrupted her writing and Included th following remarkable story of her experiences, in this parenthesis: "As I have tried to write the above, and some of the following pages-^tried to compose, to arrange the expression of thoughtI have encountered such hin- drance that I give it this publicity in the hope to beat it off of me. It comes from the air. What or where its true source of responsibility is cannot be affirmed or provenwhether the more mundane or celestial. There are 'voices and thun- derlngs and lightnings,' and what more I scarcely can discern it is dire confusion and assault. My mind and thoughts are snatched and wiped out, figuratively speak- ing and in mentality, it is almost as if I were jerked off my feet and swung in the air it is a rasping howl of determination to choose and to force upon me words, style of expression, punctuation, and even pen strokes a female shrillness of voice that is sustained by a heavier roarthe high shrillness like the swish of a whipand the Whole volume of sound that soars and dips in the airsoars aloft and then/with gathered momentum falls in deadly blows upon me. I reject it struggle against', Jt all, and try to throw it off. But it lames me and almost stops" roy wrltlng ,at times I have to give it up. Theft again, another day, I make the at- tempt. It is .such bullying and forcing as leaves me crippled in expression some- times, and at other times unwilling, positively and indignantly refusing, to use the best expression, the words. I had put down and half decided uponbut found It" hard to grasp in thought because made to be so scattered in mind, because the words are so barbarously, go IMPUDENTLY thrust down my throat, figuratively are so .insisted on as. the will, of the overshadowing demons. The seizure of me arid the outpour of imposed will and choice suggests all the barbarity of the 'hazing' which the public finds reported, described variously in the common news- papers it is so infinitely swaggering, strutting and consequently domineering it .is, mentally, the very essence of despotic outrage. It is such inexpressible, such galling DICTATION and COMMAND, and such assumption of ownership concern- ing what I myself have written or am trying to write and insofar as it succeeds. Is such complete ruin of what I attempt! Sometimes, the suggestion of assault and destruction is something like panthers and tigers poised for a leap, and lashing their tails- in fury." Despite this* horror of the alr-'whlch assails1 Interesting matter. . F. Norton. Goddard, the. conquerer of the New York's' policy evil, fold* at thV recent.dinner given in.his honor at the Savoy hotel, an old story of a maid secant. "This maid," he. said,-"hadI just come over" from the old country, and sfe wa very green. Everything'she did proclaimed her greenness. One of her habits was^ always to come down stairs backward. "I assure yotf it was a funny sight to see her descending a staircase slowly in that way. Her hand grasped the balustrade for safety, and every-little while she * looked 'arijund .to se^.ho^ much farther she had to go. g?jL %yA\tsi&hy do-youTcAme down -stairs backward, Kathleen?' some one asked her. ** V /*'Sure, sir,"she wnswerftd, 'that's the way we always came down stairs in tbt ship*rd6mhV ovex?^Isn't 1ft the fashion in America* - -- ~ it Mrs. S. E. W., she composes some HE WAS AHEAD OF THE GAME.., 1 - St. Paul Globe. "Talking about moderate drinking," said Father Lawler of the cathedral parish, after he had addressed the delegates at the meeting of the Total Abstinence union, and walked'down the street toward the parochial residence, "I know a physician In this town who-ordered a patient of his to take a. glass of wine four times each day.' 'This patient is a well Ttnownman in St. Paul, noted, for being a strict ab- stainer .arid a temperance worker. One day the physician called, and seeing litti* change, asked the wife of the patient: " ' "'Does your husband take'four glasses of wine-regularly?' '* " 'Oh, yes, doctor, he is very strict about it. Indeed, he Is ftmr week's ahead', so earnest is he over -it.' " :'*':- ", .* ". " SHE CAME DOWN CRAB FASHION , ' , Boston Post. *' r - . - ' - - .. - - ,'